The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].

the dining room had an ornate ceiling‎

The upper limit of an object or action.

price ceilings‎

(aviation) The highest altitude at which an aircraft may fly.

(mathematics) The smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number.